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...Potomac, with famed old-time Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson autographing 300 gift baseballs for the Juniors. They had their own pretty-girl singers and band. They planted a hickory tree near the Washington Monument in soil from every State, Mrs. H. G. Courtney of Norwalk, Iowa, wielding the spade ably assisted by President Combs. They sang Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here, using "heck"' to fill out the line, "What the - do we care!" Unlike city and town carriers, they did not agitate for a 40-hr. week, because a P. O. on W. gets...
Died. Anton Lang, 63, Bavarian potter who three times (1900, 1910, 1922) played the role of the Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play; after an operation for a stomach ailment; in Munich. Softspoken, spade-whiskered Anton Lang first appeared in the Passion Play in 1878, read the prologue in 1930 and 1934, was succeeded in his chief part by Alois Lang, a woodcarver...
...deal final, the Four Aces won the Cup for the fourth time in the past five years. But they came close to losing when, on the next to the last deal, two members of the team went down 200 points on a vulnerable four-spade contract, cutting their final lead to only 230 points...
...whom labor can count, than take the field against conservatives nominated by the two old parties. The latter course would be pioneering without the prospects of immediate result. Lewis does not object to pioneering, but he does not see labor's pressing problems permitting a long span of spade work and defeats as a preliminary to labor rule in the distant future. Unlike the A. F. of L. leaders, who look upon the possibility of independent political action by labor as akin to Communism, Lewis does not bar the possible formation of a new party in which labor will...
...contribution to the lore of horticulture. It is no easy thing to stage a flower show; you have to have flowers. This fact has been ably set forth in a manual indispensable to the amateur gardener. Displaying a rare gifts for clear exposition, and never afraid to call a spade a spade. Miss Fisher has given us of her best...